Word: priestess
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Trust Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the high priestess of pleasure, to provide parents and teens with a middle ground. She has just published Dr. Ruth Talks to Kids, in which she writes for ages 8 through 14. Her thesis: teach kids everything, and then encourage them to wait. "Make sure even the first kiss is a memorable experience, is what I tell kids," she says. "I don't think kids should be engaging in sex too early, not even necking and petting. I generally think age 14 and 15 is too early, in spite of the fact that by then girls...
...Jorge Amado: Mestizaje es grandeza (Mixture is greatness). Lam's father was Chinese, his mother the daughter of a slave from the Congo. (Spain did not abandon slavery in its Caribbean colonies until 1886.) He grew up hearing African languages spoken all around him, and his godmother was a priestess of a Santeria cult, a hybrid form of Christianity and African worship...
Selena Fox, a nature priestess and director ofa Wisconsin animist group called the CircleSanctuary, began her talk with a prayer for theplanet Earth...
Garcia's imagination is ambitious. Not only does she reunite Pilar with her grandmother; she also claims her own aesthetic identity. Like a priestess, in passages of beautiful island incantation, she conjures her Cuban heritage from a land between "death and oblivion," so that she too can fasten on Abuela Celia's drop pearl earrings, sit in a wicker swing by the sea, and watch as the radiant spirits of her forefathers "stretch out a colossal hand...
...training at Cormon's academy. There are six immobile figures: one standing with her chemise hiked up as though getting ready for a medical inspection; the other five sitting in postures of frozen relaxation on the big plum-colored sofas. Madame presides in her lilac dress, like a weary priestess at a rite. The self-conscious geometry of the poses, dominated by the black angular legs of the girl in the foreground, reinforces the plush silence...